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Wilm Weppelmann

ヴィルム・ヴェッペルマン　/　ゔぃるむ・ゔぇっぺるまん

Photographer from Germany

April 17, 1957 – November 5, 2021　・　Lüdinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia
photographer

My Take

Weppelmann intrigues me precisely because he resists a tidy label. Photographer, conceptual artist, garden artist, writer; the Münster-based German worked across forms while circling one heavy theme, the boundaries of human existence. Solo shows at the Town Museum Münster and the Museum for Sepulchral Culture in Kassel tell me he stared straight at mortality rather than decorating around it. I value artists who treat the unanswerable as a lifelong assignment instead of a marketable gimmick. He died in 2021, but work rooted in life's edges tends to outlast its maker, and I suspect his will.

Overview

Wilm Weppelmann (17 April 1957 – 5 November 2021) was a German artist, conceptual artist, garden artist, photographer and writer based in Münster Germany, with extensive solo exhibitions (Town Museum Münster, Museum for Sepulchral Culture Kassel, etc.) concerning the boundaries of human existence.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Wilm Weppelmann
Name (Japanese): ヴィルム・ヴェッペルマン
Reading: ゔぃるむ・ゔぇっぺるまん
Born: April 17, 1957 – November 5, 2021
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aries / Rooster
Origin: Lüdinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Occupation: photographer

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6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%83%E3%83%9A%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3

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